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.............................. Charles Schwab
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The Charles Schwab Corporation NASDAQ: SCHW is one of the world's largest discount brokers. Schwab now offers the same services as traditional brokerages with much lower commissions and fees. Schwab serves some 7 million individual and institutional clients, with over $1.4 trillion in assets (as of Sept. 30, 2007), from some 300 offices in the U.S. Clients can also access its services via telephone, wireless device, and the Internet. Besides discount brokerage, the firm offers a wide range of investment research, mutual funds, annuities, bond trading, and now checking and mortgages through its Charles Schwab Bank. Schwab's success depends heavily on the success of their independent investment adviser firms. Schwab serves roughly 5,000 independent advisers within its network. Most independent adviser firms are not affiliated with any brokerage firm, are not managed by a brokerage firm, and work independently from the brokerage firm, as adviser firms offer investment services to individuals or businesses. These adviser firms are generally regulated by state/local government or by the federal government and are also governed by the basic principles similar to that of a broker and yet different when rendering objective investment advice.
In 2005, the headline of a newspaper for financial advisers read Schwab battles for wirehouse assets announced a new strategy of shifting more accounts from the brokerage firms and transitioning more brokers from the "brokerage world" into registered investment advisers. On November 20, 2006, Schwab announced an agreement to sell U.S. Trust to Bank of America for $3.3 Billion. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2007.
In 2000, Charles Schwab Corporation's merger with US Trust was complete. It was good move but it turned out to be a mistake as its assets declined and it was slapped a $10 million fine for violation of money-laundering rules, a judgment handed down after the merger with Schwab. In 2000, Schwab was reeling from a dramatic drop-off in online trading precipitated by the tech-stock collapse. They had to cut-back and down-size and subsequently the revenue fell 25%.
In late 2003, Schwab was one of the companies investigated by the SEC. Schwab faced allegations regarding market timing by a fund family operated by UST and illegal late trading in the Schwab Mutual Fund Marketplace. Schwab's reputation was tarnished and it was hit hard by this episode. In 2004, Schwab sold Schwab Capital Market and paid $350,000 fine to SEC. But these setbacks were just an aberration and Charles Scwab came out stronger.
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